DOCUMENT RESUME ED 066 883 EM 010 172 TITLE Eleventh Report

DOCUMENT RESUME ED 066 883 EM 010 172 TITLE Eleventh Report on Telecommunication and the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. INSTITUTION International Telecommunication Union, Geneva (Switzerland). REPORT NO B-10 PUB DATE Jul 72 NOTE 124p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$6.58 DESCRIPTORS Annual Reports; *Communication Satellites; International Law; *International Organizations; Standards; *Technological Advancement; *Telecommunication ABSTRACT Subjects covered in this annual report of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) include 1) action taken with regard to regulations; 2) application of international regulations; 3) telecommunication studies and standardization; 4) planning of the international telecommunication network; 5) technical cooperation activities; 6) cooperation with other international organizations concerned with space; and 7) information and do,-umentation activities. In addition, appendixes contain the reports of individual countries on developments in space communication and relevant resolutions adopted by the United Nations at its 26th session. (RH) booklet* No. 10 Eleventh Report by the International Telecommunication Union on telecqmfnunication and the peaceful uses of outer space Other publications on the ITU: Book From semaphore to satellite, 1793-1965 (1965) Booklet No. 1 1865-1965, a hundred years of international co-operation (1967) Booklet No. 2 ITU and space radiocommunication (1968) Booklet No. 3 Eighth Report by the International i elecommunication Union on telecommunication and the peaceful uses of outer space (1969) Booklet No. 4 Symposium " Space and Radiocommunication ", Paris (1969) Booklet No.J - World Telecommunication Day-17 May 1969 (1969) Booklet No. 6 Ninth Report by the International Telecommunication Union on telecommunication and the peaceful uses of outer space (1970) Booklet No. 7 World Telecommunication Day-17 May 1970 (1971) Booklet No. 8 Tenth Report by the Intc.nitional Telecommunication Union on telecommunication and the peaceful uses of outer space (1971) Booklet No. 9 Speeches made at the inaugural meeting of the second World Administrative Radio Conference for Space Telecommunications on 7 June 1971 (1971) Published by the International Telecommunication Union, Geneva 1972 oz) .40 Q CI U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EOUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EOUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO. DUCE!' EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE Pt SON OR ORGANIZATION ORIG INATING IT POINTS F VIEW OR OPIN- IONS STATED DO I\ T NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDU- CATION POSITION DR POLICY eleventh report by the international telecommunication union on telecommunication and the peaceful uses of outer space 0 b Lu TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. Introduction 5 2. Action taken with regard to regulationsDecisions of the World Administra- tive Radio Conference to:- Space Telecommunications (Geneva, 1971) 5 3. Application of international regulationsInternational registration of frequency assignments to space telecommunications 10 4. Telecommunication studies did standardization 14 S. Planning of the international telecommunication network 17 6. Technical Co-operation activities 17 7. Co-operation with other international organizations concerned with space 18 8. Information and documentation activities 19 Annex 1 Report) on progress made in the development of space communications Information supplied by the following countries (countries are listed in French alphabetical order): Argentine Republic 23 Australia (Commonwealth of) 32 Belgium 35 Brazil 37 Cameroon (Federal Republic of) 41 Canada 41 Ceylon 56 China 57 Korea (R.,cuiAlc of) 57 Denmark 59 Spain 60 United States of America 63 Finland 59 France 72 Greece 78 India (Republic of) 78 Indonesia (Republic of) 79 3 Page Iran 83 Israel (State of) 83 Italy 84 Jamaica 86 Japan 87 Kenya 92 Kuwait (State of) 93 Mexico 95 Nicaragua 100 Norway 59 New Zealand 101 PI Uganda 92 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 103 Portugal 103 ill Federal Republic of Germany 103 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, theChannel Islands and the Isle of Man 108 Sweden 59 Switzerland (Confederation of) 114 Tanzania (United Republic of) 92 Thailand 114 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 114 Zaire (Republic of) 116 Zambia (Republic of) 120 Annex 2 Resolutions adopted by the United Nations at its 26th session: n s-o..tion 2776 (XXVI) International co-operation in the peaceful uses of outerspace 123 Resolution 2778 (XXVI) Convening of theWorking Group on Remote Sensing of the E.2rti, by Satellites 125 Eleventh Report of the ITU on telecommunication and the peaceful uses of outer space 1. Introduction THIS document is a report on the action of the ITU, the International Frequency taken by the International Telecom- Registration Board (IFRB), in accordance munication Union (ITU) with regard to with Radio Regulations drawn up by the outer space since the submission of thecompetent ITU Conferences. Technical Tenth Report in 1971 (see the supplement studies relating to the use of telecommuni- to theTelecommunication Journal, July cations in outer space are conducted by 1971). two other permanent organs, the Inter- Itis submitted for the attention of the national Radio Consultative Committee United Nations Committee on the Peace- (CCIR) and the International Telegraph ful Uses of Outer Space and of the Econo- and Telephone Consultative Committee mic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and for (CCITT). the information of Members of the Union. Details of the work done by the Confer- As it was explained in earlier reports in ences and permanent organs of the Union this series, international regulations are are given in the sections which follow. adopted at World Administrative Con- ferences. Since these are intergovernmental Annex I contains reports by a number of conferences, the regulations they adopt Members of the Union on the progress they have the force of international treaties. The have made in space communications in internationalregistrationoffrequency 1971. assignmentsforspacetelecommunica- Annex 2 contains two resolutions of the tions is carried out by a permanent organ United Nations. 2. Action taken with regard to regulationsDecisions of the World Administrative Radio Conference for Space Telecommunications (Geneva, 1971) During 1971, the ITU's main activities Some of these factors are: with regard to outer space were carried out in the context of the World Adminis- the extremely rapid development of trative Radio Conference for Space Tele- space techniques; communications. The need for such a thediversificationof spaceradio - conference had become increasingly ap- communications; parent owing to advances in space radiocommunication techniques and the rapidly theneed for co-ordination between expanding use of these radiocommunica- existing or planned world-wide systems tions,callingforspecialattentionto and other regional or even national certain factors which could not be exa- systems which are planned or under mined in isolation. study; 5 --- the efficient use of orbits, especially to consider, revise and supplement as the geostationary satellite orbit, and necessary, existing administrative and finally, technical provisions of the Radio Regu- lations and adopt, as necessary, new ne%% prospects for direct broadcasting provisions for radiocommunication ser- via satellite. vices, in so far as they use space radio techniques, including those for manned The Conference, which was held in Geneva space vehicles, and for the radio astro- from 7 June to 17 July 1971, was attended nomy service, so as to ensure the efficient by some 740 delegates from 100 countries use of the spectrum ". (see the Telecommunication Journal, July, August, September, October1971).Its The following is a brief review of some or work was mainly based on proposals the principal changes introduced into the submitted by Members of the ITU. The Radio Regulations, with special emphasis purposeofthisWorldAdministrative ontwoservicestowhichfrequency Conference was to ensure that the technical assignments were made for the first time, provisions and regulations governing the the broadcasting-satellite service and the use of space telecommunications by all earth exploration-satellite service. users should be based on the most recent technicalachievementsandthatthey Article I (Definitions) was partly revised; should enable optimum use to be made of in many cases, there was a tendency to these telecommunications in forthcoming regard space rac';ocommunications.not years. as a service in the proper sense of the term, but rather as a special technique used in Before we examine some of the decisions various services. The following definitions of the Conference,it may be useful to are to be noted: mention certain of the principles on which they were based: use with equa"ty of 84A P Broadcasting-satellite service rights of the frequency bands allocated to A radiocommunication service in which the space radiocommunication services, no signals transmitted or retransmitted by permanent priority that might create an space stations are intended for direct obstacle to the establishment of their own reception' by the general public. space systems by other countries, introduction of new co-ordination procedures with 84APA Individual reception (in the broad- a view to more efficient use of the frequency casting- satellite service) spectrum and of the geostationary satellite The receptionof emissionsfrom a orbit. In the case of broadcasting, restric- spacestationinthe broadcasting - tions were placed on radiation inside

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